Peterson submitted Vazquez with a rear-naked choke to capture the
Legacy Fighting Championship bantamweight title in the
Legacy 56 headliner on Friday at The Bomb Factory in Dallas.
The bout ended with Vazquez asleep in the challenger’s arms 3:08
into the fourth round.

Vazquez found himself stuck in two guillotines inside the first
five minutes but bounced back with smooth punching in the second
round, opening a laceration near the Octagon MMA export’s right
eye. However, Peterson rebounded in the third, where he weathered
an early storm, took down the champion and seized his back before
threatening with a rear-naked choke for roughly two minutes.
Peterson could not seal the deal, but it was a harbinger for what
was to come.

The 22-year-old Vazquez appeared to tire midway through the fourth
round, as he surrendered his back yet again. Peterson wasted no
time, applying a textbook rear-naked choke. Vazquez fought to free
himself but ultimately succumbed to the choke and slipped into
unconsciousness.

Meanwhile, bantamweight contender Jason
Sampson won his sixth consecutive fight by outlasting Ryan Hollis
over three grueling rounds in the co-feature. Sampson swept the
scorecards with matching 30-26 marks.

The much-shorter Sampson secured routine takedowns and controlled
the action on the ground. On the feet, Hollis found his long reach
nullified for much of the match.

In a fight that could have gone either way, Levi Mowles
saw his hand raised in a minor upset. He was the busier fighter
over the course of his battle with Edwin
Figueroa at 135 pounds, landing the cleaner punches on the feet
while dictating the pace in the clinch and on the ground. All three
judges scored it 29-28, two of them siding with Mowles.

Meanwhile, featherweight contenders J.C.
Cottrell and Cody Walker
waged a terrific back-and-forth war from start to finish. Both men
were on the verge of being knocked out and both threatened
submissions. In the end, Cottrell was quicker and more effective
with his strikes and cage control. All three judges agreed he had
done enough to win, rendering scores of 29-28, 29-28 and 29-27.
Cottrell has won six fights in a row.

Elsewhere, welterweight Bilal
Williams was too much for Sean Holden
to handle, as “The Tiger” ripped him apart with punches until
referee Birchie Stillwagoner intervened. A flurry of punches to the
head rocked Holden and forced him to stumble around the cage.
Williams did not stop throwing until the fight was over. The
stoppage came at 3:13 of round one.

Finally, it took featherweight Miles Johns
just over a round to dispatch Eliazar
Rodriguez with punches, as he dropped him with a vicious
uppercut and then finished him with a series of strikes. It ended
38 seconds into the second round.